Strymon Magneto (Eurorack)

Strymon has made its first move into the Eurorack modular market with the Magneto Four Head dTape Echo & Looper module.

‘We were seeing some musicians using the Strymon pedals in their Eurorack set-ups, and El Capstan [dTape Echo] seemed to be a popular choice, where people would place it at the end of their signal chain and sweeten up their signal with some nice tape delay sounds, so it seemed like a good place to start,’ says Pete Celi, DSP and Sound Designer at the company he co-founded with Dave Fruehling and Gregg Stock. ‘We knew that by introducing something in the Eurorack format that would give us the ability to really expand on the capabilities and feature set.’

In its research, Strymon studied and has recreated the saturation and soft clipping of magnetic tape when driven hard, and provided real-time controls for Tape Age, Tape Crinkle, and mechanical wow and flutter. This is combined with a spring reverb, a combination found in certain tape echoes.

‘We’ve got a good library of effects that we think can be good starting points to develop further and turn into things that are suitable and fun and add value and enhancement to people’s experience and experimentations in modular,’ Celli says.

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